The Nero Award Nominees Announced

The Wolfe Pack was founded nearly thirty-five years ago to study, analyze, and thoroughly enjoy the numerous Nero Wolfe books and novellas written by Rex Stout. Although the club is headquartered in New York City, site of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin’s adventures radiating from the brownstone on West 35^th Street, the Wolfe Pack has members world-wide.

Each year, the Wolfe Pack’s literary awards committee sifts through numerous submissions and nominates five novels for the Nero Award, which is presented annually to an author for excellence in the mystery genre in the tradition of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe novels and stories.

The 2011 nominees are:

Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen

The Book of Spies by Gayle Lynds

Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

The Midnight Show Murders by Al Roker

Think of a Number by John Verdon

The award will be presented at the Black Orchid Banquet, traditionally held on the first Saturday each December. Past winners of the Nero include Lee Child, Martha Grimes, Laura Lippman, Dennis Lehane, and Sharyn McCrumb.

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Terrie blogs at Women of Mystery.  One of her recent short stories can be found in the anthology Crimes By Moonlight, and “For Keepsies” can be read at Beat To A Pulp webzine.